• The trial court certified that the case involved a plea bargain and that Appellant had no right of appeal. Although one could read the opinion to hold that Wiley forfeited his claim by failing to bring it on direct appeal from the community supervision order, we think the case turns more precisely on Wiley’s knowing waiver of the right to appeal than on his failure to bring a claim on direct appeal from a community supervision order. The court of criminal appeals observed that the record “shows that the appellant was well aware of the existence and the amount of attorney fees that were imposed for his court appointed representation.” Id. at *5. And the court noted that the trial court admonished Wiley “that, should it follow the plea bargain, [he] would not be allowed to appeal without the trial court’s permission.” Id. at *1; see Tex.R.App.P. 25.2(2)(B). If an appellant is barred from bringing an appeal by rule 25.2(2)(B), in the first place, it makes little sense to say that he forfeits his claim by not bringing it on appeal.
The gist of the court of criminal appeals’ holding that Wiley had forfeited his claim for review appears to turn on evidence in the record that he waived his right to appeal and pled guilty knowing the amount of the fees and knowing that he would be required to pay them. Although these factors may be less stoutly supported in the record in this case than they were in Wiley, we think the record before us does show that at the time Appellant was placed on community supervision, he was sufficiently aware of the fees that had accrued and the requirement that he pay them but nonetheless knowingly chose to forego appeal. Regarding the first two factors, by his signature, Appellant acknowledged having received the conditions of his community supervision, which included a requirement that he pay $725.00 in attorney fees. As observed by the court of criminal appeals in Wiley, the reimbursement of attorney fees is not imposed only as a condition of community supervision; but, on authority of article 26.05(g) of the code of criminal procedure, the judgment independently imposed an obligation to repay attorney fees “as court costs.” See Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Ann. art. 26.05(g);[2] Wiley, 2013 WL 5337093, at *4. Appellant has not claimed that his counsel did not know of this provision; nor has he claimed counsel failed to advise him that before the trial court could require that he offset costs of his court-appointed legal services it had to find that Appellant’s financial circumstances had changed since the indigency finding. Had this requirement been a deal-breaker, Appellant could have chosen not to forego his right to appeal and plead guilty. Instead, the record shows that Appellant expressly waived the right to appeal from the order placing him on deferred adjudication.
Because the record shows that Appellant knew at the time he was placed on community supervision that he would be required to repay the $725.00 in attorney fees that had accrued and nonetheless expressly waived his right to appeal, we are constrained by Wiley to hold that Appellant has forfeited this part of his claim for review. See Wiley, 2013 WL 5337093, at *5. Accordingly, we overrule the remainder of Appellant’s first issue.
Issue 2––Fines in Both Cases
In his second issue, Appellant contends that the portions of the reparations designated as fines should be deleted from both judgments because the trial court did not orally pronounce any fines when it pronounced sentence in open court. The State agrees. So do we.
Fines are part of a sentence and therefore must be orally pronounced in open court in order to be valid. Taylor v. State, 131 S.W.3d 497, 500, 502 (Tex. Crim. App. 2004) (holding that fines pronounced upon deferred adjudication do not survive revocation of community supervision unless orally pronounced). The record shows that the trial court did not orally pronounce a fine in open court in either of Appellant’s cases. Nor does either judgment specifically assess a fine on its face. To the contrary, below the space designated for “Fine” on each judgment appear the letters “N/A.”
Fines were apparently intended, however, to make up part of the amounts ordered as “reparations.” The judgment in cause 1201632D recites as a special condition or order “REPARATIONS IN THE AMOUNT OF $2, 306.00.” The balance sheet evidently prepared by the community supervision department breaks this amount into four parts, one of which is listed as “FINES [$]561.00.” The judgment in cause 1201653D recites as a special condition or order “REPARATIONS IN THE AMOUNT OF $1, 670.00.” It, too, is accompanied in the clerk’s record by a balance sheet evidently prepared by the community supervision department that itemizes this amount into three parts, one of which is listed as “FINES [$]600.00.”
But, again, no fine was pronounced by the trial court in open court. Therefore, we sustain Appellant’s second issue, and modify the judgments to subtract $561.00 from the amount listed as reparations in cause 1201632D and $600.00 from the amount listed as reparations in cause 1201653D. See Abron v. State, 997 S.W.2d 281, 282 (Tex. App.––Dallas 1998, pet. ref’d) (modifying judgment to delete fine after trial court revoked probation but failed to orally pronounce fine as part of sentence); see also Washington v. State, No. 02-11-00152-CR, 2012 WL 1345743, at *2 (Tex. App.––Fort Worth Apr. 19, 2012, no pet.) (mem. op., not designated for publication) (same); Boyd v. State, No. 02-11-00035-CR, 2012 WL 1345751, at *2 (Tex. App.––Fort Worth Apr. 19, 2012, no pet.) (mem. op., not designated for publication) (same).
Issue 3––Community-Supervision Fees in the Burglary Case
One of the conditions of Appellant’s community supervision required him to pay $60.00 each month during the probationary term. At the adjudication hearing, Appellant pled true to the State’s allegation that he had failed to pay this fee for ten months and he now concedes that he owed $600.00 in probation fees at the time he had his community supervision revoked and was adjudicated. The judgment adjudicating guilt indicates that he owes reparations of $1, 670.00. The balance sheet in the clerk’s record breaks this amount into three parts. One of those parts, which we consider for purposes of this third issue, lists $920.00 in probation fees.
Appellant contends that the $920.00 figure––and consequently, the $1, 670.00 reparation amount listed on the judgment––is high by $320.00. He urges us, then, to modify the judgment to show a reduction by that amount. The State agrees that the judgment should be modified, but by only $300.00, not $320.00. The State asserts that the $20.00 difference is actually properly assessed as a Crime Stoppers Reward Fee, which is authorized by the government code.[3]
When Appellant was originally placed on deferred-adjudication community supervision on September 7, 2010, he was ordered to pay a crime stoppers fee within 30 days of the order. Although the State alleged in its petition to adjudicate that Appellant failed to pay the $60.00 probation fee from March 2011 through December 2011, it did not allege that he failed to pay any $20.00 crime- stoppers fee. Nor is there any evidence in the record that Appellant failed to pay it: no one testified at the adjudication hearing that Appellant did not pay it, and no evidence of any kind was offered or admitted showing that he did not pay it. Now, the State alleges in its brief that he failed to pay it.
But the State appears to be guessing, as indicated in its response to Appellant’s fifth issue regarding a claim against an amount allegedly “due to CSCD, ” where the State writes, “ This fee is presumably the $20 crime stopper fee Appellant was ordered to pay as a condition of probation.” [Emphasis added.] As Appellant points out, in response to one of his claims the State argues that the crime stoppers fee is part of “probation fees” and in another that it is part of the amount “due to CSCD.”
We are not persuaded by these inconsistent arguments, particularly when combined with little or nothing in the record to support the judgment amount. Allegations of probation violations must be proven in the trial court by a preponderance of the evidence. Cobb v. State, 851 S.W.2d 871, 873 (Tex. Crim. App. 1993). The State did not allege in the trial court that Appellant violated the terms of his community supervision by not paying the crime-stoppers fee, the State did not prove he did not pay it, and the trial court did not so find. Accordingly, we hold that the record does not support the judgment’s ordering reparations in the amount of $1, 670.00. We sustain Appellant’s third issue and modify the judgment to strike $320.00 from the stated amount of reparations owed in cause 1201653D.
Issue 4––Court Costs in the Aggravated-Assault Case
Appellant contends in his fourth issue that the trial court erred at the adjudication hearing by increasing the original amount of court costs Appellant was required to pay by $25.00. When the trial court placed Appellant on deferred-adjudication community supervision, it ordered him to pay $274.00 in court costs but when it adjudicated his guilt, the amount jumped to $299.00. Nothing in the record supports this $25.00 increase and the State admits that it should be struck. Therefore, we sustain Appellant’s fourth issue and modify the judgment in cause 1201632D to reflect court costs of $274.00 instead of $299.00. See Boyd, 2012 WL 1345751, at *2.
Issue 5––”Due to CSCD” in Both Causes
In his fifth issue, Appellant challenges $20.00 listed on the balance sheet in cause 1201632D and $150.00 listed on the balance sheet in cause 1201653D that are identified as a part of reparations “Due to CSCD.” We are unable to determine from the record what these figures represent or whether they were included as part of the original conditions of Appellant’s community supervision. The State concedes that the $150.00 amount should be deleted but contends that the $20.00 “is presumably the $20[.00] crime stopper fee Appellant was ordered to pay as a condition of probation.” As we have stated above in disposing of Appellant’s third issue, the record is not clear as to where this amount comes from and we are disinclined to speculate about where the trial court found it. We therefore sustain Appellant’s fifth issue and strike from the reparations ordered in cause 1201632D the $20.00 and from cause 1201653D the $150.00 identified as “Due to CSCD.” See id.
Conclusion
Cause 1201632D
We modify the trial court’s judgment adjudicating guilt as follows:
• Having overruled in part and sustained in part Appellant’s first issue, we subtract $1000.00 from the amount ordered repaid as appointed attorney fees and affirm the trial court’s order that Appellant repay attorney fees incurred at the time he was placed on probation in the amount of $725.00, and we strike from the judgment the language indicating that attorney fees are “ORDERED AS A CONDITION OF PAROLE UNDER ARTICLE 26.05 (g).” • Having sustained Appellant’s second issue, we delete from the reparations amount recited in the judgment $561.00 that was identified as a fine. • Having sustained Appellant’s fourth issue, we modify the judgment to reflect court costs of $274.00 instead of $299.00. • Having sustained Appellant’s fifth issue, we strike from the reparations recited in the judgment $20.00 identified as “Due to CSCD.” Accordingly, we modify the judgment to reflect a change in the total amount of reparations owed from $2, 306.00 to $725.00. That $725.00 is ordered repaid as appointed attorney fees payable to and through the District Clerk’s Office of Tarrant County, Texas. We affirm the judgment in cause 1201632D as modified.
Cause 1201653D
Having sustained Appellant’s second, third and fifth issues, we delete from the reparations amount recited in the judgment $600.00 that was identified as a fine; $320.00 that was identified as probation fees; and $150.00 identified as “Due to CSCD.” Accordingly, we modify the judgment to reflect a change in the total amount of reparations owed from $1, 670.00 to $600.00, and we affirm the judgment in cause 1201653D as modified.
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